Poultry drinking fountain



Nov. l0, 1925' C. w. RANDALL PoULTnY DRINKING FoUNTAi-N Filed Feb. 24, 1925 /5 Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

CLARENCE w. RANDALL, oFv ELK, 'wAs'HING'roN- :PouLTRY DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

Application filed February 24, 1925. SerialNo. 17130.l 1

To aU whom t may concer/nf 1 Be it known that I, CLARENGEW. RAN- DALI., a citizen of the United States, residing at Elk, in the countyv of Spokane and State of 4Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inV a f Poultry Drinking Fountain, of which the followingv Y is a specification.

[This invention appertains lto watering devices designed chiefly for watering poultry and aims to provide an apparatus ofy this nature which, while structurally simple, in-Y expensive to manufacture, and unlikely to become easily out of yorder or service, is, nevertheless, strong, firm, durable, rigid, and well adapted for the purpose forwhich it is designed.V Y

An important object of the invention is to provide a Watering appliance of this nature which embodies the vacuum Vprinciple for maintaining drinking water in adrinking panl at a constant level.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a drinking fountain. of this nature which Vis handy, easily manipulated, readily removable from the drinking pan for cleaning purposes, thereby being sanitary.v

With the foregoing and numerous other objects in view as willappear as the description proceeds, the improvement resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully de# scribed and claimed.

In the drawing A Figure 1 is a view of my improved drinking appliance showing the same in `vertical section, and

Fig. 2 is a .horizontal section taken substantially on the line 2 of Fig. 1 looking downwardly. f

Referring to the drawing in detail, it willy .be seen that 1 designates a drinking pan which may be of any desired formation and has provided on its bottom a plurality of spacing members 2 each of which includes a looped spring finger 3. These springngers 3 radiate from the center of the pan. These spacing members 2 are circularly arranged about the center of the pan and may be of any desired number.

' A cylindrical tank 4 has its bottom end open and rests on the bottom of the an 1 so that the spring fingers 3 engage tllfe interior thereof. The top tank 4 is closed as at 5. This closed end 5 is provided with the central opening y6y and the off center opening 7. A frusto-conical shaped hood 8 isformed `Onthe lexterior of the tank 4 adjacent its upper end so as to extend over and a distance above the pan 1.

A plurality of rods 9 are fixed to the ex.- terior of thetank 4 and extendvertically thereof for supporting a supply tank 10 which, in the present embodiment ofthe ini. vention, is cylindrical information, having` its bottom closed as at 11'and its top ,tapered OFFICE.

to form. a frusto-conical portion VwhichisinvertedV as shown at'12 havingthe u'pperjor"7 0 bottom 11 of the tank`10 is Vprovided with smaller endy thereof capped as atV 13.v The the-QE. center opening 14"registering .ver tically with the vopening 7 and the central opening 15 registering vertically withthe opening 6.

A pipe 16 extends throughopenings and 15 andterminates mediate the top 5 and the bottom of pan 1. The tank 4 isv provided with an annular series of openings `17 vat adistance above'its lower edge and a distance below the upper edge of the pan 1. The bottom terminal of the pipe 16 is disposed above these openings 17. 1

A pipe 19 extends through openings 7 and 14 terminating at its lower end in the upper portion of the tank 4 and at its upper end in the upper portion 12 of the tank 10.

In using this watering appliance it is assembled with the pan 1 as is indicated to advantage in Fig. 1. The valve 20 in the pipe 16 is then closed and the cap 13 removed. The supply tank 10 may then be filled with the the upperend Y is then replacedon the tank 1() and the valve at itsv bottom end inter-` drinking water so that the .Y level thereof will be'disposed alittle below of the pipe 19. The cap 13 a 20 openedso that the water lwill flow through the pipe 16 and partially fill tank 4 and the pan 1.

It will be seenthat as the water rises in tank 1 above the openings 1'?,L that' a vacuum is being formedV in tank v10 whichwill allow atmospheric' pressure to maintain the water in pan 1 at a constantV level. When the water in tank 1 recedes below the opening 17 air is thus allowed to be delivered into tank 4 and vent thus relieving the vacuum suiiioiently to raise the level in the pan 1. of the cylindricalv` pipe 19 into tank 10,(

tion which I have described by way of eX- ample attains all V'the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and in the above description and that'the device is capable oft being easily lifted out of the pan after-the valve 2O isv` closed in order that the pan may be cleaned.`

in' the-detailsf of con-struction,y in the materi'als,"in the'"diin'ens'ions,V and in. the combina-J tin and ar'ra'ngement'ofA parts may be Yresorted'towithout departing from' thef spirit orv scope of the invention as lhereinafter cl'aiiietlf or' sacrificing anyv of 'its advantages.

'Havingtthufs' described my invention',v what Il clainiias new i"s:y f

onits'bott'oni; aj circular series of spacing eleiiients lembodying'` spring fingers, a cylindrical tank provided vwith a bottomY open end ffrrestingoni they bottom of the pan so ,that the' fingers x of, said tank provided with a plurality of @targa in as Siaefzdsflsosea between the top andbottoiri of the par',y a` supply tank engage the vinterior 'theref mounted above the rst mentioned tank, a pipe communicating the two tanks7 and a valve in said pipe.

2. In'combination;a'idrinking pan having on its bottom a circular series of spacing elements' embodying spring lingers, a cylindrical tank providedwith a bottom open end toi' resting onl tlie'bo'ttom olf thepan so that the springr lingers engage the interior `thereof, said Vtank provided with a plurality of openings in its side Vdisposed between the top and bottom of the panj a supply tank mounted' above the i'irst mentioned tank', a pipe communicating the two tanks,l a valve in said pipe, a vent pipetconnecting the two tanks terminatingat its lbottom end in the upper portion of the'lower tank/*and at its upper end in the upper portion ofthegupper tank'. Y. K l y y poultryv drinking' 'fountain including a flower 'tank and ant upp'ertanku Va plurality of ro'd's spacing the 'tanks vent pipe lextending into the tanks and termin'ating in the upper portion 'of thel lower tank anidf in the upper portion of the upper tank, a second pipe extending intothefta-nks terminatingin the lower' portion of'theupper tank and in the finterrnediate'portion. ot the lower tank, and a valvev in saidsecond pp'e- .s s s In testimony whereof'l affixv my signature;

CLARENCE w. RANDALL. 

